You’re right, I was misremembering the transition as less chaotic than it actually was.

It’s the logical conclusion to the “Skype for Business” hole they were scrambling to fill for a couple years between Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype and the advent of Teams. The core idea behind Teams is probably the first Microsoft idea I’ve liked in a while.

Between Teams and O365, Microsoft pretty successfully pivoted into a business services titan rather than just the company selling the software businesses use. Plus now they can probably sell your data (or anonymized versions of it) AND charge you for using the services that collect that data.

My legit 980 Pro didn’t even last a full year and Samsung had such a mess of a supply chain at the time they just refunded my purchase instead of honoring the 5-year warranty. Can’t imagine these fakes will be any more reliable…

Read the article maybe?

> The question was: why did Sony decide to market a television with an integrated PS2 more than four years after the release of its PS3?

> To answer this question we have to look further in the past. In that year Sony released a refurbished PS2, the PS2 Slim, to boost sales again. Technically, the PS2 was sold until 2013. More than seven years after the introduction of the PS3. However, after the introduction of the PS3, the PS2 was particularly popular in emerging economies such as Brazil and other parts of Latin America. In Japan, the US and Europe, the interest of many gamers had already turned to the new PS3.

> The story goes that Sony had a surplus of PS2 hardware for the European PAL region. The company may have expected a more gradual transition from current to next-gen and thereby overproduced PS2 hardware. It now sought a way to get rid of its redundant hardware without having to write it all off or dump it somewhere in the sea.

PS3 was $499 at launch ($640 adjusted for inflation) meanwhile the PS2 was just $99 in 2010.

I thought it was only the French part of Canada (and even then only really Quebec) that wanted to secede. Maybe I’ve been giving Alberta too little credit as the Texas of Canada…

That’s fair, but you can say that about any number of communities. For example, police have a domestic abuse rate of 40% (4x national average for USA).

I wasn’t really trying to put the amish/mennonite communities on a pedestal as much as I was their craftsmanship and work ethic. I think any community, sufficiently insular, will have bad actor-members who exploit the insular and secret nature of the group to their own ends. Doubly so for any religious community.

Especially amish and mennonite barns since those would have absolutely been put up by hand in much the same way as 100 years ago. At best, these people won’t drive cars with any chrome on them because they’re “too English” at that point. At worst they, don’t use electricity in any capacity they can avoid.

They keep to themselves, are industrious, god-fearing people, and genuinely look to help any community they are part of. It’s disgusting to think that someone would target these people in any capacity.

And if you’re in America, your ISP was already doing that. Isn’t capitalism neat?